The Nelson Law Firm, PC filed a putative class action lawsuit on July 23, 2009 against Pearson Education Inc. in the Southern District of New York on behalf of Norbert Wu, individually and as class representative for the putative class of professional photographers whose timely copyrighted images were misappropriated in dozens of Pearson textbooks. The Nelson Law Firm, PC also filed a lawsuit on July 23, 2009 against Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in the Southern District of New York on behalf of renowned professional photographers Louie Psihoyos and Norbert Wu, whose copyrighted images were misappropriated in dozens of Houghton Mifflin textbooks.

Pearson Education Inc. announced the release of cutting-edge books and video learning for the Java community published under the imprints of Addison-Wesley Professional (AW) and Prentice Hall Professional (PH). The new titles include books on JavaFX, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s platform for building and delivering a new generation of rich Internet applications (RIA), including features like visual effects, sound, and animation. The books are published as part of The Java Series and Sun Microsystems Press, which is supported, endorsed, and authored by the creators of the Java technology at Sun. Other Java releases include recent titles from best-selling authors Paul and Harvey Deitel: Java for Programmers and JavaScript for Programmers, from the Deitel Developer Series, apply the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching practicing programmers the ins and outs of Java and JavaScript.

Pearson announced the launch of Cert Prep Online, an easy-to-use exam preparation web-based service that both assesses a customer's current knowledge base and prepares them for the certification exam. The service, which includes a comprehensive database of more than 800 exam questions, measures the customer's knowledge, provides feedback on areas that require further study, delivers learning materials, and then provides seven exam practice tests. The service is available within Pearson's website, InformIT, at www.certpreponline.com. Cert Prep Online debuts with CompTIA A+, covering the four popular CompTIA A+Exams. The service starts by testing users on their knowledge of each exam topic. Customers are then provided with a customized learning plan, complete with visual training products created exclusively for the service, as well as PDFs from CompTIA A+Exam Prep, a popular A+preparation book by Charles J. Brooks. Cert Prep Online then re-tests the users on their knowledge and provides seven practice exams to measure testing readiness and build user confidence. This new service will change the way people are able to prepare for a certification. Its uniqueness comes from exam study plans that are dynamically built upon that person's existing knowledge base, and their own individual strengths and weaknesses with the subject matter. This personalized study plan saves time and allows the customer to concentrate on exactly what topic areas they need to learn in order to pass their exam.